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Wild donkeys, also known as burros, are wandering into Texas from Mexico. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department considers about 300 burros in Big Bend to be destructive intruders that hog food and water needed by the parks native species. Brent Leisure with Texas State Parks and Wildlife says theyre dealing with the problem by hunting the burros. Were managing for indigenous native plant and animal communities, and that not being a part of it, we do know that the burros have a negative impact and effect on native wildlife and plants, Leisure said.